The Drop: Week of September 24th 2012 New Releases

LittleBigPlanet’s critically acclaimed “Play, Create and Share” experience makes its way to the PlayStation Vita, in a completely new Sackboy adventure that takes advantage of the innovative and powerful feature set of the PS Vita. Play through loads of included levels and collect prizes, costumes, and create materials. Create your own levels and challenges with familiar and easy-to-use pop-it tools, which are made even more user friendly through the PS Vita’s front and rear touch screens. Once complete, share your creations online with the whole LBP community.

Also on PSN this week is Tokyo Jungle, the acclaimed and celebrated urban animal survival game that lit up sales charts in Japan. With over 50 playable animals to choose from, unleash your inner beast to hunt your way to the top of Tokyo’s post-apocalyptic food chain. Whether in Story or Survival Mode, you never know where your next meal will come from or the dangers you’ll face, so be prepared for anything and everything. Forage through this desolate but dangerous city to complete story-based challenges using a variety of survival skills, from all-out attack to stealth. Enjoy this week’s The Drop.

PlayStation Vita

LittleBigPlanet (Also on PSN) — In LittleBigPlanet for PlayStation Vita, join Sackboy on a completely new adventure, filled with exploration and competition. Customize Sackboy and the world around you with unique touch and camera Create tools that let you Play with more freedom that ever before. Then discover an endless amount of free games, created and Shared by fans online. LittleBigPlanet for PS Vita is a miniature development kit in the palm of your hand that will allow players to Create a multitude of different experiences—the possibilities are truly endless!

FIFA Soccer 13 (Also on PS3 and PS Vita) — FIFA 2013 captures all the drama and unpredictability of real-world football. This year, the game creates a true battle for possession across the entire pitch, and delivers freedom and creativity in attack. Driven by five game-changing innovations that revolutionize artificial intelligence, dribbling, ball control and physical play, FIFA 2013 represents the largest and deepest feature set in the history of the franchise.

PlayStation 3

Dead or Alive 5 (Also on PSN) — Dead or Alive 5 marries its signature fighting style with MMA fighting techniques to deliver a major kick for players new and old. Visually striking scenes from around the world blended with a hard-hitting cast puts players in the roles of the cast of Dead or Alive fighters once again. In DoA 5, stages act not only as visual backdrops to accompany a fight but instead play to a fighter’s strengths. As a fight progresses, the backdrop will change and interact with players. Skilled fighters will be able to utilize these dynamic stages to execute hard hitting blows, pitting their opponents against new obstacles creating a unique experience that will leave you breathless.

Pro Evolution Soccer 13 — In Pro Evolution Soccer 2013, players are given greater freedom over ball control and the way players receive and trap the ball has been improved. Also in PES 2013, characters are more recognizable and the game is more balanced than ever before.

PlayStation Network

Tokyo Jungle (PSN Exclusive) — What happens to man’s best friend, when man doesn’t exist? With humans extinct, pets have gone feral, zoo animals have escaped captivity and wild creatures are ruling the streets of Tokyo – and all are facing a savage battle for survival. As the animal of your choice, you must use your cunning, natural instincts and ruthless aggression to seize territory and escape the jaws of your enemies in this original action adventure game.

Starhawk — Starhawk provides fast paced third-person shooter action set in this lawless frontier of space, allowing players to instantly alter the battlefield by calling down offensive and defensive structures in real-time from an orbiting drop ship, all while blasting away at enemies in the middle of huge single-player or multi-player firefights.

inFAMOUS Collection — The Infamous Collection includes the first two Infamous games, as well as Festival of Blood, extra missions, additional character costumes, power ups and weapon styles.

One Piece: Pirate Warriors (PSN Exclusive) — Immerse yourself in the faithfully rendered ONE PIECE universe created by Eiichiro Oda. Gain new skills and abilities to add impressive combos to your fighting repertoire. Set sail with a friend via PlayStation Network and explore the seas together.

Mirror’s Edge — Mirror’s Edge introduces players to Faith, a “runner” in a world where communication channels are highly monitored and the movement of human traffic is closely watched. When Faith’s sister gets framed for a murder she did not commit, Faith finds herself on the edge of the city, on the wrong side of the law.

Final Fantasy III (For PSP) — Protected by the crystals of light, the once peaceful land has forever been changed by the great tremor. Without warning, the earthquake pulled the crystals into the earth, upsetting the world’s fragile balance. It seems as if all hope is lost—but as the Gulgan prophecy foretold, four souls blessed with the light shall once again restore balance to the world…

Marvel vs. Capcom Origins — Marvel vs. Capcom Origins offers both the one-on-one gameplay of Marvel Super Heroes and the two-on-two carnage of the original Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, featuring a tag system, assists, and the wild Duo Team Attack. Bringing forth a host of features never before seen in these games, Marvel vs. Capcom Origins features GGPO-enhanced online play with 8-player lobbies and spectator mode, HD graphical upgrades, dynamic challenges and replay saving.

Realms of Ancient War — The heroic-fantasy hack ‘n’ slash game R.A.W.: Realms of Ancient War takes you on a continent ravaged by a war that raged ten years earlier. The four Kingdoms of Men, Elves and Dwarves lay in ruins, preyed on by raiders and looters. In this chaos, a new, unknown threat is looming… To discover its true nature, the kingdoms sent detachments to investigate, a dangerous mission from which no one returned. But what about you? You, who were in the wrong place at the wrong time…

Table Ice Hockey (For PS Vita/PSN Exclusive) — A new Augmented Reality title is making its way to the PS Vita called Table Ice Hockey. Sony has released screenshots of the game from Gamescom, which joined the AR Play line-up of titles, that include pulzAR, Table Top Tanks andCliff Diving, and Table Football.

Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit — Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit is a jubilantly violent and gory platforming adventure starring Ash, a very angry rabbit who is also the prince of Hell. Ash is propelled on a mission of bloody vengeance when his nemesis – Fat Rabbit – posts incriminating sex pictures of the Prince and his rubber ducky on the ‘Hellternet’.

Demos

Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit

NBA 2K13

Realms of Ancient War

PSone Classic

Turnabout — Incredibly easy to learn and nearly impossible to master, Turnabout will challenge the most skilled puzzle champions. If things roll your way, you’ll tumble through the tricky rounds of this highly addictive puzzler and prove yourself to be a puzzle genius!

PlayStation 2 Classic

Grand Theft Auto III — From the days of the PlayStation 2, this downloadable game allows you to play the classic original on compatible PlayStation game systems.
Mob bosses need favors, crooked cops need help, the street gangs want you dead; so to compensate you’ll have to rob, steal, and kill in order to stay alive.

Developed by DMA Design, GTA3 is the first installment of the series to utilize a fully three-dimensional living city with open environments and non-linear gameplay. Additional features include a cast of hundreds of different characters, more than 50 types of vehicles, three hours of professionally recorded music, and a huge array of deadly street weapons.

[Editor’s Note: The following dates are subject to change. Game details are gathered from Press Releases from their individual publishers and/or ESRB rating descriptions.]

149 Comments

Tokyo Jungle im COMMINGGGG for youuu. day one purchase. only game i been excited about in the longest time. the replay value looks to be hugeee. 50 Plus animals, i can just play with one animal for hours. imagine all 50. please correct me if im wrong on the number. .. Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit looks sickk as helllll to. i def need to check the demo out on day one. my type of games.

– Final Fantasy III better be PS Vita Compatible
– Final Fantasy III better bot be over $19.99 cause I made a rule not to buy PSP games over that price.
– Why can’t you guys get Final Fantasy I anniversary and Final Fantasy II on PSP up yet!?
– Fix the damn Facebook app on the Vita, it’s unbelievable sony allows such a currupted update to be on the app. The app closes every time i use it and i redl atleast 5 times
– Can we get a update that allows a option to turn off the adhoc signal. Every time I play SEGA Genesis Collection on Vita is shuts down my wifi and I can’t stop it cause you have to turn off adhoc manually
– Can you guys get some screenshots or something of the PS Vita version of Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. I wanna know exactly how it looks compared to the ps3 game. But haven’t seen it, just hear its the same engine as the ps3 and same framerate. Which is great. But I wanna see how it is exactly.
– Where is Crackle on PS Vita like announced at E3 as summer!! Summers done… I missed Samurai X cause I was waiting for the PS Vita app and falls here and STILL no Crackle. Hopefully Crunchyroll doesn’t get this same treatment, been dying to watch fairy tails new weekly ep on the go

Getting Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit (actually surprised nobody has even commented on that game). Definitely skipping FFIII though. I know it’ll end up being $30 and I wouldn’t even spend $20 on it. It’s a slightly polished DS port of one of the worst games in the series. No thank you.

Great Drop! I’m for sure getting Tokyo Jungle and GTA III. I would get LBP Vita but I ended up buying it at Gamestop last week. I can’t wait to play GTA III again. And Tokyo Jungle looks like an interesting game.

@35: PSP is not dead at all. It’s a Japanese game. The PSP is still selling a ton in Japan. It makes perfect sense for a Japanese company to release PSP games.

Be happy that Square Enix bothered to bring the lazy cash in to PSN for North America at all.

And they won’t waste development money on releasing FFIII of all things on PS Vita and PS3. Don’t kid yourself. FFIII is their step-child. They don’t care about it. That’s why the PSP game is a port of a DS game. A DS game that sucks.

I gotta say for once this is a decent update! i mean LBP is nice despite retail buyers getting it early even though they could have released it last week, or give some type of compensation to digital users as it just shows they favor retail buyer than digital buyers. Although despite that i probably cant get it.

One Piece is a buy for me. granted i havent been keeping up with the anime or manga but i enjoy the games that have been released for it and its nice to finally get a current gen release for this series. I hope that if this sells well we get more from the series.

Final Fantasy 3 is nice. i still have the ds version nd will probably get the psp version in time.

I hope we actually get GTA 3 this time. how many times have they claim it to be released only to cancel it and say it will be out later.